ga-sei-lessons / SEI-125-MERN-Deploy-server

servr for mern deploy code along

MERN Auth server

this is an express api that does simple auth with 'jwt tokens' AKA 'JSON Web Tokens Tokens'

Installing this app:

• clone this repo
• cd into the folder you just cloned
• npm i to install the required packages
• touch .env for enviromental variables
• put the following in your .env file:

PORT=3001
MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost/mernAuth
JWT_SECRET=yourSuperDuperBigSecret

• nodemon to start the server
• a postman collection of the routes can be found here: https://www.getpostman.com/collections/2a35a65f2ba4993cd2fc